The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Biden’s actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trump’s impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country’s prosecutor general in 2015. . . . Trump’s allies, including Giuliani, have argued that Ukraine intervened in that election on Clinton’s behalf, in part by targeting Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The country’s anti-corruption bureau released entries from a black ledger that allegedly showed $12 million in cash payments from its Russia-leaning political party to Manafort during the years in which he worked as a political consultant in Ukraine. Manafort said the document was falsified, but the revelations prompted him to resign from the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
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The tapes released in Kyiv offered no evidence to back Giuliani’s long-standing accusation that Biden pushed for the prosecutor general’s ouster to help his son. At the time, Hunter Biden was earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a month on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, whose owner, a former government minister, was under investigation in Ukraine. Still, the tapes gave Trump’s allies a chance to recycle that allegation closer to the 2020 election. . . .The clips released in Kyiv consisted of conversations that Biden had as vice president with Poroshenko, primarily about domestic Ukrainian political issues. At the time, Biden was the face of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, demanding as a matter of policy that the government make reforms to end corruption if it wanted to continue to receive billions of dollars in Western aid and loan guarantees.. . . At no point in the clips released Tuesday does Biden mention Burisma or his son.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
Sounds exactly like the kind of CT smear swill PoS would swallow and regurgitate in order to try to annoy liberals ("own the libturds" in Trumpist speak): a toady making an "array of accusations" based on nothing damning or even suspicious isn't news. But then, dishonesty is part of the ugliness, which is the point for Trumpists. Every single one of their hoaxes relies on Trumpists to treat accusations by other Trumpists as proof of guilt. They count on Trumpists to assume nefariousness where none exists.
Isn't it strange how nobody who is supposedly guilty is sin ever gets indicted by Trump's DOJ if his targets are so obviously guilty?
Isn't it strange that the administration whose people got indicted to the moon and back, swallowed by convictions, are the ones who *just know* it's actually everyone else who is guilty?
That said, I can see why Trumpists - including people who deny being Trumpists despite always defending Trump and always attacking the left with trollish BS, like PoS - would think demanding an end to corruption before loans are granted is an evil thing to do. If Trump hadn't been able to get money from the Russians due to a Russian concern about corruption, their boy would have been flat broke long ago.
At any rate, if by "Bidengate", PoS means self-referential Trumpist lies backed up by nothing in reality, then sure...it's begun. It began the moment Trump got caught trying to extort fabrication of dirt on Biden from Ukraine. It's what he always does: gets caught, immediately accuses a target on a different "side" of doing what he just got caught doing.
He knows the ugliness is the point for his supporters. He knows they'll say whatever he tells them to.
And that's why it doesn't matter that there is absolutely nothing here.